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The "better half" is now the better-educated half of US married couples.

Since the 1862 Morrill Act, which enabled the first state-funded land-grant colleges and universities, the proportion of presidents who attended independent colleges (18 of 28) is even higher than the share of all presidents (24 of 43, counting Cleveland only once).

Although Ohio's independent colleges award just over a third of the bachelor's degrees awarded in the state, half of the delegation in the 103rd to 111th sessions of the U.S. Congress received their degrees at an independent college.

Of the 16 remaining teams in the tournament, five are from independent colleges. Ohio's Xavier joins Villanova, Duke, Gonzaga, and Syracuse in the third round this weekend.

Ohio's independent colleges share a history in football - Oberlin was the last Ohio college, public or private, to defeat Ohio State (7-6 in 1921) - and a record of accomplishment in the championship tournaments. More details can be found here.

Note how the stewards of the freedoms the founders demanded on July 4, 1776, are all graduates of independent colleges and independent law schools.